Exhaust farty popping noises ?

[RBH58]

TheDrBrian said:

That sounds so rubbish from the outside but the mp3 inside sounds ok.

Fortunately the manual doesn't do it

[Stu08]

ferrariF50lover said:

Sorry Stu, you've made the mistake lots of people do: assuming a place called Pistonheads is for motoring enthusiasts, rather than what it actually is, which is Mumsnet for blokes.

I, fortunately, am blessed with empathy, so can understand entirely the sort of gammon-faced Daily Mailer who mumbles under his breath any time a yoof dares disturb the tranquility around his beige bungalow by doing something as raucous as driving their car about the place and I share a smile with you at the thought of such a thing genuinely spoiling the old git's day.

I really need to stop making this mistake - it has happened several times this month.

I can understand if you're bouncing it off the rev limiter around a housing area etc.

However, people calling people anti-social and pricks etc. really need to have a word with themselves and not get so uptight. This forum after all was a TVR website if I believe what is to be read - and they were hardly quiet cars! I can only imagine the stick people would have once gotten if they came on here and called people pricks because they liked a good exhaust note.

And, yes! Before anyone spots the flaw in my argument that we're talking 4 pot vs V8 - It really doesn't matter as areas of opinion like this are subjective. Do I like the sound of a Corsa 1.2 NA with a large bore exhaust? No. Do I think they're a prick? No. They like it and that's the main thing for them. Now if they're driving anti-socially fair enough.

[daemon]

Stu08 said:

However, people calling people anti-social and pricks etc. really need to have a word with themselves and not get so uptight.

Exactly.

[andrewparker]

I wonder if the old guy would have reacted the same if it was an old E-Type that passed him?

I regularly get passed by someone driving one when I out running and revel in the noise it makes, but it's loud!

[RDMcG]

Young people without a lot of money strive to be a bit different even if they do similar things,paradoxically

Back in the day when I was just starting driving we did silly stuff to Minis. Wheel spacers ,modified exhausts,”racing” steering wheels , very minor performance tweaks and so on. My sense is that all that nonsense produced zero performance gains but was a naive attempt to look cool.

Which it didn’t.

Still , essentially harmless

[TheDrBrian]

RBH58 said:

TheDrBrian said:

That sounds so rubbish from the outside but the mp3 inside sounds ok.

Fortunately the manual doesn't do it

It's not just the shift farts, the engine sounds so anodyne

[anonymous-user]

daemon said:

ferrariF50lover said:

Stu08 said:

What's wrong with rims? I call them alloys, wheels, rims etc.

I think on a car enthusiast website; rims is a perfectly acceptable name for wheels.

Sorry Stu, you've made the mistake lots of people do: assuming a place called Pistonheads is for motoring enthusiasts, rather than what it actually is, which is Mumsnet for blokes.

I, fortunately, am blessed with empathy, so can understand entirely the sort of gammon-faced Daily Mailer who mumbles under his breath any time a yoof dares disturb the tranquility around his beige bungalow by doing something as raucous as driving their car about the place and I share a smile with you at the thought of such a thing genuinely spoiling the old git's day.

Thank you. Yes exactly my view.

Maybe I am not 'gangster' enough to call wheels 'rims'

My apologies gents I won't pipe up next time I will keep my opinion to myself.

And it's me causing pistonheads to be the male version of mumsnet... righto chaps.

[daemon]

AlrightYouns said:

daemon said:

ferrariF50lover said:

Stu08 said:

What's wrong with rims? I call them alloys, wheels, rims etc.

I think on a car enthusiast website; rims is a perfectly acceptable name for wheels.

Sorry Stu, you've made the mistake lots of people do: assuming a place called Pistonheads is for motoring enthusiasts, rather than what it actually is, which is Mumsnet for blokes.

I, fortunately, am blessed with empathy, so can understand entirely the sort of gammon-faced Daily Mailer who mumbles under his breath any time a yoof dares disturb the tranquility around his beige bungalow by doing something as raucous as driving their car about the place and I share a smile with you at the thought of such a thing genuinely spoiling the old git's day.

Thank you. Yes exactly my view.

Maybe I am not 'gangster' enough to call wheels 'rims'

My apologies gents I won't pipe up next time I will keep my opinion to myself.

And it's me causing pistonheads to be the male version of mumsnet... righto chaps.

I think its me actually. I'm old enough to pre-date alloys and i'd have referred to "steel rims" back in the day.

At 48 i'm far too old to be bothered with whats the current "yoof" or "gangsta" terminology.